Shield for pitchers



(NoModel.) Y l M. L. BUCKLEY.

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Patented Apr. 37,1894.

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UNITED STATES PfrnNT OFFICE.

MARGARET L. BUCKLEY, OF FREEPORT, PENSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,789, datedApril 3, 1894. Application led January 16, 1894. Serial No. 497,079. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, MARGARET L. BUOKLEY,

'a citizen of. the United States, residing at Freeport, in the county of Armstrong and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and usefullmprovement in Shields for Pitchers and other Articles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descripion.

The object of this invention is to provide a' 4or base or foot of a vessel, thereby to protectA l the vessel from injury when being set down, and also, prevent noise due 'to the handling of such vessel, as hereinafter particularly set forth and claimed.

' In'the accompanying drawings illustrating myinvention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is a perspective View of a common ewer or pltcher; and Fig.4 2 is a perspective view of a wash bowl, both which vessels are supplied with my invention. Fig. 3 is a plan view and:

cross-section, of van imperforate shield or protector adapted to the pitcher; and Fig. 4 is a plan view and cross-section of an imperforate or solid shield or protector adapted to thev bowl.

As is well known, the bases or feet of pitchers, ewers, bowls, and other like vessels, of crockery or other Ware, are flanged, and I utilize this fiange to hold my shield or protector in place. This shield or protector consists of a rubber or other equivalent elastic disk d, the ri mb of which is thickened and constricted so thatin order to apply the device to the Ifoot 'of a vessel, the said rim must be distended, and thereafter, falling into the hollow of the foot, its constrictive character admits of its being held firmly to the vessel. This disk may be perforated, as shown in Fig. 3, or

it may be solid, as shown in Fig. 4. The perforations will be found useful in permitting the escape of water or the isweat or Water of condensation that may find its way between the vessel and the shield, and thereby prevent 5 5 the shield from. deteriorating or rotting. It 4 is obvious that the shield may be made of any desired Vthickness and various colors. 1 A vessel provided with a shield in accordance with my invention has its bottom pro- 6c tected or cushioned from injury by immediate contact with hard objects, and its foot or flange is protected from chipping and other iuj ury by being set down too forcibly, and so, also, the noise of placing vessels on hard sub- 6 5y stances, as, for instance, on marble-top washstands, is prevented.

The constrictive rim enables lne to use a shield of given size on vessels the feet of which are of greatly varying diameter, so that 7o but comparatively few sizes of shields need be made to answer the requirements of the trade.

I esteem it essential to the complete protection of the bottom of a vessel that the .shield shall extend entirely across the bottom and wholly cover or inclose such bottom, including its foot or iiange, for thereby alone can thebottom be insured against injury and the shield be securely held to the vessel.

What Iclaim is- 1. A rubber shield or protector for pitchers, bowls, `and`other` vessels, consisting of the elastic disk d to extend across and wholly cover or inclose the bott-om of the vessel and protect it against injury and provided with the constrictive rim b adapted to engage the foot of the vessel eXteriorly only and by its constrictive force bind the shield to such foot, and admit of the use of the shield on different l9o Vessels Whose feet greatly vary in diameter, substantially as described.

2.` A rubber shield or protector for Vessels,

having the perforated elastic disk a to extend across and wholly cover or inclose the bottom of the vessel and protect it against injury and the upturned thickened constrictive rim b adapted to engage the foot of the vessel exteriorly only and by itsconstrictive force bind the shield to such foot and admit of the use roo of the shield on bottoms of vessels of different diameters, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of January, A. D. 1894.

MARGARET L. BUCKLEY.

Witnesses: v n COUR. P.' HOWELL, WM. H. FINCKEL. 

